Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) has come up with a canny way to increase its revenue during a recession. It will loan companies money to buy its software. Redmond has always had a deft…
According to Reuters, US senator Charles Schumer has asked the SEC to look at conflicts of interest at bond rating firms. Reuters writes that Washington Mutual (WM) are in favor of the…
After rafts of bad news from every corner of the business arena starting with GE (NYSE: GE) and spreading to Washington Mutual (NYSE: WM) and Wachovia (NYSE: WB), a hard luck report…
According to comScore, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) continued its climb in US search engine share. The number for Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) dropped slightly as did the figure for Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT). The comScore…
One of the factors lost in the debate over the value of Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) is the amount of time that consumers spend on the site. For advertisers, especially those running display…
Over the last week, both major financials and techs sold off substantially, another sign that one major sector is doing nothing to offset the other. Taken in tandem with GE’s (NYSE: GE)…
AOL Money & Finance (TWX) moved ahead of Yahoo! (YHOO) Finance in both total visits and page views during March. For the period, AOL had 409 million page views and 85.3 million…
Streaming Media Magazine and Streamingmediia.com have released their list of the twenty-five most important people in in the streaming media industry over the last decade. “I suppose if you extend the baseball…
Most companies on Nasdaq did fairly well with the shorts in the period which ended on March 31 compared to March 14. The two tremendous exceptions were Level 3 (LVLT) where short…
The creator of the law of unintended consequences must have had the scramble to merge with or buy Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) in mind. Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) gets daily benefit from the fighting…
According to Reuters, Yahoo! (YHOO) is seeking a merger with Time Warner’s (TWX) AOL which Microsoft (MSFT) and News Corp (NWS) at a joint bid for the No.2 search company. Reuters writes…
Various press reports indicate that Time Warner (TWX) may be close to combining its AOL unit with Yahoo! (YHOO). At the same time, Microsoft (MSFT) is planning to make a joint bid…
There is a report out of the Wall Street Journal that Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) and Time Warner Inc. (NYSE: TWX) may be close to inking a deal that would potentially combine…
According to The Wall Street Journal, Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) will start to test search advertising from Google (NASDAQ: GOOG). The agreement could grow. Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) is not going to be happy.…
Disgraced stock-picking guru Bill Miller of Legg Mason says he will support Yahoo!’s (YHOO) efforts to stay independent if Microsoft (MSFT) lowers the value of its offer to buy the portal company.…
